Apparatus for sowing rice



Jan. 30, 1923. 1,4435% A. CABRINI APPARATUS FOR Sowms E. Fl LED JAN. 27 1 9 Patented Jan; 30, 1923. i I

entree:

' ATTILIOGABRINI, on MILAN, ITALY;

ArrAnATUs non sowrne RICE.

T 207mmz't may concern .Be it known that AT'rImo CABRINI, manufacturer, a subject of the'Kingdom of Italy,

residing at Milan, Corso Italia 25, Italy,

' sowingseed is carriedout by driving along has invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Apparatus for Sowing Rice, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating the ground and sowing seed inrice-fields.

The process of preparing the ground and in the fields, a sliding machine provided with wedged skates, said operationresulting in the formation ofrows, on the middle line of which small channels are formed to receive the grains of rice-seed, a further sliding member being provided to press said grains into the ground. I

A. 'object'ojt the invention is to provide an apparatus, strictly connected 1 with the execution of said process.

The principles of my invention will be "better understood with reference tothe annexed drawings, which: v

Fig. l 18 an elevational rear view of a seed machin provided with the apparatus tooarry on the lnvention.

Flg. 2 IS a side elevatlonal view of same.

Fig. 3 is a part al section on line AB of Fig. 1 and shows in larger scale the apparatus which forms the subject of the invention. a i p 1 Fig. 4 is a section on line 0-1) of Fig.

Figs. 5 and (3 represent. respectively in side iew ii/11d front view further form ofconstruction of a detail of the apparatus;

Fig. 7 shows a cross section of the field after it has been treated according to the invention:

According to the invention,the body of an ordinary seedin machine is substantially mounted on a board -3-. rectangular in form, to the back edge 4 of which are secured the lower ends of the'feed tubes 2-- ,for the seed. 1

Under the board and precisely on each of the middle lines comprised between two adjacent tubes 2.- are mounted the plowingmembers 5 consisting of a kind of claim Application filed January 27, 1920. Serial No. 354,402.

hollow] wedge having a cutting edge at its front and shaped on the sides according to the principles adopted in shapingthe fore v portion of boats and ships.

Said plowing member is provided with a '55 tail 6' which smooths the'ground al:

ready furrowed by'the progressof the .mai cl11ne, wh1le,two wings -'7- arranged over the tall 6 and practically parallel to the sides of the plowingmember, but a little nearer to the middle line thereof, have the effect of smoothing and packing the sides of the furrows. I

The machine being driven along by aninal power, the ground will be furrowed at 9- as shown in section in Fig. 7 and the small dykes 8- are formed between the furrows.

,Under the, board -3- correspondent with the cross lines passing through the lower ends of the tubes is mounted a skate -10 which consists of an halt cylinder with atapered front end at '11.

Said skate is higher than skate 5 and forms a small-channel ---l2 in the soil wherein fall the grains, which are pressed against the wet ground, by a kind of a tongue l'--- pivotally or elastically mounted at -15- on the lower end of each tube -2. i

In lieu of the sliding plow member -5, rotary members may be provided, consist- 'ing of bevelled wheels -l6, mounted on bearings 17 and provided with guards .18.

which the same should be performed, I

An apparatus for sowing rice comprising a baseboard provided on its upper side with seed hoppers, seed feeding tubesextending downwardly from said hoppers and provided at their lower ends with semi cylindrical soil engaging elements provided.

with tapered front ends, designed to form '95,

slight depressions in the surface of the soil, plowing elements extending from the under side of said board, and each arranged between two of the seed teeding'tubes, each of saidplowing elements consisting of 0.100

wmlge-shaxped. elel'nenl; having a curved i01'- ward. cut'bmg; edge deslgned to cut the S011 and form furrows bet-Ween the spaces 00- mpied by said semi-cylindrical members,

converging soil paeking'lnembers located rearwardly of each 01 said Wedge-shaped elements, and a tongue provlded at the rear 0! each of said seed feeding tubes for fore- .ing seeds dropped by the tubes into the CABRINJ, ATTILIO. 

